[Kamen Rider Die]

KAMEN RIDER OOO FINAL STAGE



Even by Final Stage standards, this one’s just a suit showcase and stunt show. The setup is thin, the story is Fight Villains To Go Home, it doesn’t really address anything from the finale of the show, and the face actors (two of them, anyway) don’t even show up until the literal last minute. All you get in exchange is the aforementioned mountain of suits, and constant action.

Yet it all still sort of works? With only the stunt team providing anything of merit, they went above and beyond to incorporate as many cool gimmicks as possible in the setting. The bit with a dozen Gatakiribas lining up in sequence to fight is arguably the coolest use of that suit in any version of Kamen Rider OOO, while the ending battle one-ups the summer movie by including some team-ups before the final attack on the villain. (Neat to get Kougami to voice King OOO, incidentally.) It’s a fun gallery of suits, all given interesting ways to fight. If it’s never much more than that… I guess it’s not nothing?

Oh, but huge kudos to the stage show for introducing the idea of Desire Sentai Greeedman. Sure, they didn’t do much with it beyond that roll call, but that roll call was EPIC.